Beswick to commemorate Manchester’s first women channel swimmer
The first women to swim the English Channel is to have a street named after her in East Manchester.
Sunny Lowry's name is to be...
Manchester seems like a place of the dead said Lowry
Two letters up for auction in London tomorrow night suggest that the painter LS Lowry may not have always been Manchester's greatest fan.
The two...
Welcome Bishop Walker
Manchester has a new Bishop it might have escaped your notice.
The Right Reverend David Walker was enthroned as the 12th Bishop of Manchester at...
Lutyens Masterpiece to become Gotham Hotel
With the news that The Bespoke Hotel Group has announced plans to develop Edwin Lutyens 1930's Art Deco masterpiece on King Street this week,...
John Kay a misunderstood legacy
The wonderfully simple invention of a the man who with a bit of string and two pickers actuating a fly shuttle, quadrupled the power...
Campaign underway to immortalise Arkwright
A campaign to commemorate one of the fathers of the industrial revolution is underway in his birthplace in Preston.
Sir Richard Arkwright, born in 1732...